Masum Rana wanted to pass the passport without holding a broker or without a bribe. But even if police could work without the broker, the police could not escape the bribe during verification. Masum's question, 'If I submit all the valid documents for a passport, then why verification again?'
Masum Rana, who was working in a private company, paid one and a half thousand rupees to verify the passport in May. He said, "If there is no mistake in the passport office, it is possible to finish the first step without any hassle. But in the investigation of the police, Do not want to give accurate reports without money or delay in vain. He also said that his present address is in Mohammadpur in the capital and permanent address in Comilla. He has to pay one and a half thousand for verification in two places.
An angry Masum said in the first light, 'The criminals are given the passport office by the database. Most people do not suffer from suffering.
Salma Khatun has to pay Tk 3,800 for the permanent-temporary address inquiry. In this, Tk 1,500 in Dhaka Salma said, 'The person who came for the investigation said directly, if the money is not given, the report will delay.'
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) released a report titled "Good Governance in Passport Services: Challenges and Doings" by press conference on August 21. It is said, 75.3 percent of the people gave a bribe to the police investigation report. The average amount of bribe is 797 taka. 76 percent of the customers are victims of irregularities and corruption in police investigation. The report also shows that the passport issuance is done through brokers or others. 41.7 percent of the service provider has assisted the broker or others.
Asked whether a police investigation is necessary in the passport, Director General of the Directorate of Passport and Director General, Major General Md. Masud Rezwan said in the first light, there are still many fake birthright. That's needed. But he also said that if everyone gets a smart national identity card, then it may be thought of whether police investigation is needed.
It is seen in the Agargaon divisional passport and visa office that the brokers get screwed from the road. One of them Nasir Asked how they passed the passports, he said, if you want to do 8,000 in general, then it takes 13 thousand taka. Do not hold lines to give fingerprint. The police investigation is also about them. They will bring the report of the permanent-temporary address to the investigation.
Many of the complaints about the police investigation. Some of the victims said that after submitting all the papers, the investigation increased the sufferings. On the condition of anonymity, a passport holder said, "It is not a verification, but a way of bribe by harassment."
Asked about the harassment of the verdict, a Special Branch (SB) officer of the police told that the reporter could not speak due to the busyness of the two days.
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